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60. Magnolia Warbler. Rather common migrant. 
61. Cerulean Warbler. Rare migrant. 
62. Chestnut-sided Warbler. Common migrant. 
63. Blackburnian Warbler. Rather common migrant. 
64. Black-throated Green Warbler. Common migrant 
65. Black-throated Blue Warbler. Common migrant. 
66. Oven Bird. Common summer resident. 
67. Redstart. Common migrant. 
68. Catbird. Common summer resident. 
69. Brown Creeper. Common migrant. 
70. White-breasted Nuthatch. Rather common resident. 
71. Red-breasted Nuthatch. Common migrant. 
72. Chickadee. Common winter resident; a few stay there all summer 
and breed. 
73. Golden-crowned Kinglet. Very common migrant. 
74. Ruby-crowned Kinglet. Common migrant. 
75. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Rather common summer resident. 
76. Wood Thrush. Rather rare migrant. 
77. W ilson Thrush. Common migrant. 
78. Brown Thrasher. Not' very common; breeds. 
79. Gray-cheeked Thrush. Uncommon migrant. 
80. Olive-backed Thrush. Uncommon migrant. 
81. Hermit Thrush. Rather common migrant. 
82. Robin. Common summer resident. 
83. Blue Bird. Quite common summer resident. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE OPEN DRY MEADOWS (STA. IV). 
These meadows he back of and extend to the edge of the bluffs where 
the forest has been cut away, and the land cleared. For the most part they 
are covered with weeds ancl grasses, a small cultivated field and a raspberry 
patch being the only variations from a typical meadow. In the field are 
raised corn and turnips. A disused sand and gravel pit is located at one 
side of the meadow, and here a family of Kingfishers have made their home 
for several years. Several pairs of Bank Swallows have nested in this same 
bank the last two years. The meadow proper is overgrown with many 
weeds and grasses, the most common of which are pig-weed ( Chenopodium 
album), ragweed ( Ambrosia artemesiaejolia) , thimble berry ( Pauicum capil- 
lar e) , crab-grass ( Polygonum aviculare ), pigeon grass (Syntherisma sanguin- 
alis), chick-weed ( Portulaca oleracea ), dandelion ( Tararacum taxaracum), 
June grass ( Poa pratensis), and Canada golden-rod ( Solidago canadensis ). 
The ground is high and sandy except for a large hollow lying at the further 
side where a layer -of humus a couple of feet deep covers the gravel. The 
vegetation here is very rank and is composed mostly of long grasses. 
CONDITIONS IN SPRING. 
The snow usually leaves the meadows about the first of March. The ground 
soon becomes soft and where there is little vegetation is quite muddy. Water 
accumulates in the hollows and retards the growth of the plants there. Weed 
seed is abundant , and many birds characteristic of other habitats come here 
to feed on them. By the last of March many of the grasses are green, but 
the season is quite well advanced before many of the weeds have made much 
